OAKLAND, CALIF.—Lucid, a provider of real-time energy monitoring and display systems for buildings, announced a partnership with the Seattle 2030 District to provide energy and water monitoring for commercial buildings in Downtown Seattle. Lucid’s Building Dashboard will allow managers and tenants to track performance and conserve resources. Several hotels are participating in the District.
The Seattle 2030 District is a public/private partnership of more than 60 members, including Architecture 2030, 19 property owners and managers, the City of Seattle, King County, and numerous professional and community stakeholders. Their aim is to enroll nearly 88 million square feet of buildings in Downtown Seattle and leverage a variety of resources to meet the energy, water and CO2 reduction targets called for by Architecture 2030 in the 2030 Challenge for Planning. The target is to reduce energy use, water consumption and CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030.
This marks the first time that a group of commercial buildings has voluntarily shared energy, water and transportation data with the public. A Downtown Seattle Building Dashboard will serve as the central platform for tracking, aggregating and displaying building performance. By centrally tracking and communicating performance data, members are able to benchmark themselves against other participating buildings, as well as typical buildings, and use this information to evaluate progress toward reduction targets. In addition to measuring performance at the District level, Lucid will be monitoring and tracking performance for each participating building and organization through Building Dashboard.
Common Goal Shared by Owners, Managers
“It’s critically important that we develop a community of buildings, owners and managers that are striving for a common goal, and leveraging actual performance data to challenge themselves to find creative ways to reduce the impact of these buildings,” said Brian Geller, executive director for the Seattle 2030 District.
“District members can use Building Dashboard to motivate their building managers to reduce consumption through management and facility improvements, and engage building tenants in making behavior changes that will reduce consumption further,” said Lucid CEO, Michael Murray.
As of January 2012, Seattle 2030 District members had shared energy and water data for 64 individual properties, comprising more than 21 million square feet of real estate. This portfolio represents nearly 25 percent of the entire square footage of the Seattle 2030 District area. Based on actual performance data from these buildings, the founding members are performing roughly 26 percent better than the national average for similar buildings. As a whole, the 64 buildings have helped to reduce the energy consumption of the entire 2030 District area by approximately 5.6 percent.
Click here to see the Seattle 2030 District’s Building Dashboard.
